Dongchang dungeon.

Nangong Qing sat cross-legged on the ground, his thoughts fluctuated.

As the leader of the righteous path, Cihang Jingzhai relies on his own force to overwhelm the martial arts world.

For example, two hundred and forty years ago, the evil king Shi Zhixuan caused trouble in the world, and the righteous people in the world dared not speak out.

At that time, the evil king Shi Zhixuan had already reached the sky and was far from being able to fight against ordinary gods and demons. Even Cihang Jingzhai could not do anything to the evil king.

Just in this time of crisis.

That generation of the descendants of Cihang Jingzhai feeding tigers with their bodies, so that the evil king fell in love with him, and finally returned home with the evil king.

Cihang Jingzhai did not abandon any soldiers, and he solved the great troubles of the evil king like the world.

Two hundred years ago, Emperor Taizong swept the world and also favored the contemporary successor of Cihang Jingzhai. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he took more care of Cihang Jingzhai, so that Cihang Jingzhai would flourish for two hundred years.

It can be said that the reason why Cihang Jingzhai has such a great reputation today is largely due to the beauty of his disciples.

Since ancient times, it is the most difficult to receive the kindness of a beauty.

What's more, the descendant of Cihang Jingzhai, because of his practice of [Sword Book], his temperament is cold and can more and more arouse men's desire to conquer.

Now, Nangong Qing has lost all his cultivation, and the only thing he can rely on is his own skin bag

Nangong Qing is very confident in herself. No man in the world can resist her.

As long as she can become the woman of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, she can indirectly influence the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, Nangong Qing can completely imitate Cihang Jingzhai's ancestors and avoid Cihang Jingzhai's heavy losses at the expense of herself.

In the Dongchang dungeon, Nangong Qing's thoughts became increasingly firm.

She, Nangong Qing, wanted to feed the tiger with her body and conquer the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!

Ministry of Revenue.

The Minister of Revenue gave the morning court and returned directly to the Ministry of Revenue.

"grown ups."

“This is the business tax in recent days”

The Minister of Revenue waved his hand: "Put it on the table, I'll see later."

When the Minister of Revenue was busy with what he had at hand, he casually glanced at the commercial tax revenue in the past few days, and his pupils suddenly shrank.

"this"

"What's going on?"

The Minister of Revenue opened his eyes wide and almost thought he had read it wrong.

The business tax has been counted in the past few days.

Commercial tax is different from land tax.

Land tax is collected every year, and the time span is very long.

But the business tax is counted every few days.

Because every moment, commodity exchange will occur, and at the same time there will be commercial taxes.

However, the Minister of Revenue was frightened by the commercial taxes in recent days.

"How is that possible?!"

"How could the business tax surge so much?"

The Minister of Revenue swallowed his saliva and looked horrified.

The commercial tax placed in front of the Minister of Revenue has been counted.

In recent days, the commercial tax collected in Chang'an City alone has a total of 200,000 taels of silver.

Two hundred thousand taels?

What is this concept?

This is just a commercial tax within the scope of Chang'an City.

If the scope is spread across the country, how much business tax should be there?

If we follow this trend, the commercial tax of Datang will be at least 50 million taels in a year!

Fifty million taels?

A number that the Minister of Revenue has never dreamed of.

Nowadays, all the taxes in the Tang Dynasty are only a few million taels per year.

This also includes land tax.

As for business tax

In the Tang Dynasty, merchants have never been big taxpayers.

But what about now?

Looking at the numbers in front of you,

The Minister of Revenue was filled with a deep shock!

The Minister of Revenue suddenly thought that when the emperor sat on the dragon throne, he called him and the Grand Marshal Yang Qinglin to the Hall of Longevity, preparing to adjust the commercial tax and cancel the checkpoint tax, the Minister of Revenue was also preparing to dissuade him.

Because, in the view of the Minister of Revenue, once the checkpoint tax is cancelled, the commercial tax is very likely to collapse.

Level tax accounts for a large part of the business tax.

If the checkpoint tax is cancelled, what other commercial tax can be collected?

However, Li Si did not consider the opinions of the Minister of Revenue at that time, and directly issued an order to let the Minister of Revenue implement it.

The Minister of Revenue could only bite the bullet and inform the world and convey the emperor's will.

At the beginning, after the cancellation of the checkpoint tax, the Minister of Revenue had already made the worst plan. At worst, no commercial tax will be required in the future.

But now, the Minister of Revenue saw the surge in commercial taxes, as if he was dreaming.

"Your Majesty is wise!!!"

The Minister of Revenue only has this sentence in his mind.

Because, according to the current trend, even relying solely on commercial taxes, the Tang Empire's treasury can be guaranteed to be worry-free.

The Minister of Revenue felt ashamed when he thought of his skepticism about His Majesty’s will!

At that time, he thought that His Majesty had just ascended the throne and did not understand the situation in the Tang Dynasty and would have changed the commercial tax without authorization, which would inevitably lead to major problems.

Now it seems that the person who really doesn't understand the situation in the Tang Dynasty is not the emperor, but the Minister of Revenue.

The Minister of Revenue was surging.

Now that the commercial tax reform is so successful, the Minister of Revenue is full of confidence in the subsequent land reform.

"I have this wise ruler in the Tang Dynasty, so why worry about not being able to reopen the prosperous era!"

The Minister of Revenue was looking forward to it. He seemed to see that under the leadership of Li Si, the Tang Empire surrendered from all directions and congratulated all countries!

Li Si finished his morning court and returned to the Hall of Eternal Life.

Shortly after Li Si returned to the Hall of Changsheng, Cao Zhengchun from the East Factory sought a meeting outside the hall.

Li Si changed into regular clothes, sat on the dragon throne, and said calmly: "Come in!"

"Abide by the order."

The eunuch closest servant withdrew from the Hall of Eternal Life.

Not long after, Cao Zhengchun walked in quickly, knelt down and said, "I have seen Your Majesty!"

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Cao Zhengchun stood up and bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I will investigate the two major military governors of Beiting and Shuofang according to Your Majesty's words. Now there has been new progress!"

When Li Si heard this, his face turned dark: "Tell me, look."

Cao Zhengchun bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, according to the spy, the Shuofang Jiedushi has been secretly colluding with other Jiedushi over the years."

"and"

When Cao Zhengchun said this, he was a little hesitant.

“And what?”

Li Si narrowed his eyes slightly, and a hint of coldness appeared on his face.

"And at this time, the Shuofang Jiedushi had already transferred 400,000 troops from Shuofang border and could be used to directly enter the mainland at any time."

"What a courage!!!"

Li Si slapped his right hand hard on the dragon case, and cracks appeared from the dragon case.
To be continued...